that frog girl

DarkSyde and Hunter are probably the two best reasons to go to DailyKos (on top of the always appreciated benefit of being able to sound smart and in the know at cocktail parties and policy classes).

On this holiest of weekends, DarkSyde hits one out of the park:

If I was a Christian I’d thank God for including me in this Cosmos in all its resplendent majesty. I’d study every branch of science I could and hunger for more every day. I’d be teaching biology and chemistry and astronomy in Sunday Schools along side Biblical verse to eager young Christian children who would learn reverence for those fields of knowledge. I would note the truth that molecular biology has revealed: We are all one family, every man a brother, all women sisters, and each of us is our brother’s keeper. They would “ohhh” and “ahh” at the pictures of God’s cosmos from powerful telescopes. They would be fascinated with God’s intricacies found speck of blood under the microscope. They would be inspired assembling a model of life’s DNA double helix, or an atom. And they would look in fascination at the image of Creation itself borne across an ocean of space and time on the gossamer wings of invisible light. All part of God’s infinitely artistic Universe.

Rather than trying to deceive people about God’s prowess, I’d work to reveal it to them. Because science inspires mankind with precious insight into the mind of the Creator of all that exists. Far from being something to fear, science is the most powerful testimony to any Creator who crafted our natural world. And freed from the confines of politically expedient dogma, who knows what further wonders those young people might uncover to one day teach their children?

Happy Easter, everybody. Here’s to honoring the teachings of the man of the New Testament, and to forgetting the dogma of the new century.